I.Preparation for Deliverance

A.Scripture

Approximately one third of Jesus’
earthly ministry involved casting demons out of people (deliverance). Scriptural treatment of the subject is
extensive, and it was considered by Jesus’ disciples to be a normal part of
ministry (Mt 10:1, 8; Lk 9:1; 10:17-20;
Mt 12:28; Jn 14:12; I Jn 3:8).

When referring to someone who has a
demon living inside them, some modern bible translations have followed the form
of the King James Version in using the phrase “demon-possessed”, or “possessed
by a demon”. This is unfortunate. In the original New Testament (which was
written in Greek) there is no Greek word that would mean “possessed” used in
connection with demons or evil spirits.
In the original Greek text of the New Testament, two verbs and one
preposition were used to describe a person afflicted by one of more demons:

“daimonizomai”, which means “to be demonized”, or “to be
tormented by one or more demons” (Mt 15:22).“Daimon” is demon.

“ecko”,
which means “to have” a demon (Mt 11:18;
Jn 7:20),

and
“en”, which is used to mean “with” a demon (Mk 1:23; 5:2).

In no case does the New Testament
indicate that the demon owns or possesses the person.A helpful way to look at this is to view
“ecko” as equivalent to a person “having” appendicitis, and “daimonizomai” as
equivalent to a person with multiple tumors.Both are afflicted.Neither the
appendicitis nor the tumors “own” the person, but both must be removed for
his/her health and continued growth.

B.
Examine the reason for wanting to receive the ministry of deliverance.

The
desire to receive the ministry of deliverance can be influenced by a number of
ideas which are not entirely in line with God’s plan for setting His people
free. Ordinarily, people who are
troubled, even tormented, by the demons that live inside them are looking for
relief from this torment, anguish, fear, anxiety and many other disquieting
conditions. Their thoughts can follow
the line of “I’ll try anything, if it will make me feel better”, or “I’m not
sure if my problem is demons, but if it is then I surely do want them to come
out”, or “If I can just get some relief from these thoughts and feelings
(sometimes, voices), then I can get my life back on track the way I want it, and
I’ll be fine.” These people are not yet adequately prepared for the ministry of
deliverance.

In
addition to a strong and sincere desire to live a life fully yielded to God,
the most important requirement for a successful deliverance appointment is for
the candidate to come to the place where they believe that they have demons
living inside of them, and they want them out.

Many
Christians are reluctant to speak of a demon living inside a person, because
they find the thought repugnant. When
this idea is suggested, some have said, “Oh, I would hate to think so”. Some seem to prefer the idea of a person
being “oppressed”, which would suggest that the demon is outside of the person,
harassing that person in some way.
However, as we read the New Testament, we find that demons needed to be
“cast out” of people, not shooed away from them. Jesus said, “Come out of the man, you unclean
spirit!” (Mk 5:8). This terminology is
typical, in describing deliverance (Mt 9:33;
17:18; Mk 1:25; Lk 11:14; Acts 16:18).

Demons
are living beings without physical bodies, which live inside people, on a
mission to afflict and torment them, largely by manipulating their thoughts and
emotions, sometimes subtly, sometimes severely.
They want to create anxiety, fear, anger, a desire to do violence,
self-rejection, and a whole list of unhealthy and ungodly thoughts and
feelings, which generally lead to behavior that is not wholesome or godly. They have plans to “steal, kill, and destroy”,
like their master (John 10:10).

When
a child has an experience which creates strong fear in him/her, this provides
an opening for the demon of fear to enter (this is not to say that every child
who has a fearful experience will have a demon of fear). If a demon does enter, it may begin to afflict
the child with fear immediately, or it may remain dormant until later. Large numbers of adults have demons of fear
(such as, fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of vulnerability, even fear
of emotions), and have found ways to rationalize and accept those fears as
“part of life”. However, some will ask
the Lord if their fear is caused by a demon, and after revelation from Him they
will then be able to accept that one or more demons are there, which need to be
cast out. Then, they are ready for the
ministry of deliverance.

B.Can a Christian have a
demon?

Some
Christians struggle with the question of whether a Christian can have a demon,
especially Pentecostal Christians, since their denominations have taken a
doctrinal position which says this is not possible.

The
Bible has plenty to say about casting out demons, but the accounts do not
clearly indicate whether those from whom demons are cast are believers (see
Luke 13:10-16). Therefore, we will try from our search of
other parts of Scripture to draw some conclusions.

One
part of the consideration is the tripartite makeup of humans: spirit, soul and
body (I Thessalonians 5:23;
Heb 4:12). As stated before, the intention of demons is
to manipulate and torment the person’s mind, will and emotions (the soul), as
well as afflicting the body (as in Mark 9:25).

As
explained earlier, demons are on the lookout for children who undergo some form
of trauma, thus providing an opening for their entrance. This is usually found in the lives of
children who live in dysfunctional families, and/or have little or no prayer
covering. The Scripture records several
instances where Jesus ministered to children who had been invaded by demons (Mt
17:14-18; Mk 7:25-30; 9:16-27; Lk 9:38-42). Once the demon is in the soul, or even in the
body, it will stay there until cast out.
Ordinarily, the child who has not yet become a believer, and received
the indwelling Holy Spirit, has no acquaintance with the ministry of
deliverance. Once he has received Jesus
as Lord and Savior, been born again (John 3:3) and received the Holy Spirit
(Galatians 4:6; Romans 8:9), he is able to understand spiritual things (I
Corinthians 2:12-14), and is more likely to sense that the Holy Spirit is
showing him that the affliction and torment is from a demon that dwells in his
soul. As the Holy Spirit begins to bring
revelation to the new Christian about the house-cleaning he needs, then, he may
begin to look for the ministry of deliverance, in the fellowship of believers.

Some
have said that it seems impossible to them that the Holy Spirit would allow a
demon to stay in the same “temple” that He occupies, since the demon is evil,
or dark (II Corinthians 6:14). We
understand that the “temple” (I Corinthians 3:16) includes the body, soul and
spirit of the person, and that the Holy Spirit lives in the spirit of the
person, while any demon that is present lives in the soul and/or the body of
the person. This idea of the Holy Spirit
not being willing to be in a person who also has a demon, brings up another
point. Since this position assumes that
the Holy Spirit is so intolerant of the presence of evil, one wonders how is He
able to dwell in any believer, since all believers struggle with evil in them
(see Romans 7:24-25), and have been given instruction for how to confess their
evil sin (I John 1:9) when it occurs.

James,
writing to Christians (see James 1:2), writes about how our tongues seem to
have the ability to bless God and curse our fellow man (3:9), thus indicating
that both good and evil can live in the same person (3:10), though this should
not be the case. We are reprimanded for
this. Here is another instance where we
can see that the Holy Spirit is willing to live inside a vessel that also
contains evil. Of course, He is not content
with this condition, and he is at work convicting the Christian of the evil in
his life, and showing him, to the extent he is willing to listen, what he must
do to be set free.

Those
who become Christians would do well to find for their fellowship a spiritual
atmosphere where Christians are
encouraged to examine themselves in order to see what “works of the devil” (I
John 3:8) they have suffered. As they
enlist the help of the Holy Spirit, and those in the fellowship who have
spiritual maturity, then the way can be made for them to be set free from such
things.

One
additional observation is that it may be imprudent to cast a demon out of a
non-Christian, even if the non-Christian were to seek this ministry. Jesus taught us, in Matthew 12:43-45, that
when an evil spirit (demon) goes out of a man, it comes back to its former
“home”, seeking to re-enter. If it finds
that “home” unoccupied, it will move back in, taking seven other spirits more
wicked than itself, and the last state of the man will be worse than
before. The home is supposed to be
occupied by the Holy Spirit, with Him ruling as King in that place. If the Holy Spirit is reigning as King in a
man, then the man will be submitted to God, he will resist the demon, and the
demon will flee (James 4:7). This
teaching regarding the return of the evil spirit was part of Jesus’ explanation
of the condemnation which will come to those who refused to repent and receive
the goodness of God when it was offered (see Matthew 12:38-42). Some might think that we can cast the demon
out of a non-Christian, and then just lead him to Christ, so that the Holy
Spirit can come into him and protect him from the returning evil spirit. However, we can have no assurance that he
will repent of being his own god, and surrender to Jesus as Savior and Lord of
his life.

C.“Deliver Us from Evil”, by
Don Basham

Prior
to the deliverance appointment, the candidate needs to read Don Basham’s
book. This is a very good introductory
work on the demon realm, and will give the candidate an understanding of what
is involved in deliverance. This book
really should be a part of every serious Christian’s library. It is available in many Christian bookstores
(they will be glad to order it), or it can be purchased online at Amazon.com
(it will be delivered within 5 days).
Near the end of the book there is a reference to self deliverance,
however I strongly discourage this.
Demons have been known to bring harm to those who attempt this, and
without a partner there to exercise proper authority over the demon, the person
with the demon is vulnerable to harm.

D.Prayer

The
candidate should pray before reading Don Basham’s book, for the Lord to reveal
what He wants the candidate to see, understand, and experience. He should pray for God to prepare him
emotionally for the deliverance appointment, as well as spiritually. He should pray for revelation about which
demons will need to be cast out, and he should pray for the deliverance team. He should ask for revelation about his ancestors’ involvement in occult activities,
or secret organizations like Freemasonry.
These two issues are very important.

II.The Deliverance Appointment

A. Chaperone required for a female candidate

In
the early years I would minister deliverance with my wife, Carrie. In recent years, I have been able to train
men and women in the ministry of deliverance.
When the candidate is a female, I will use a female deliverance partner. Scripture will not allow two men (or one man)
to minister to a woman in an office without another woman present. We are to “avoid the appearance of evil” (I
Thessalonians 5:22). If I don’t have a trained female deliverance
partner, and a woman other than my wife is there to assist me, she must have a
good knowledge of deliverance, be willing to be an intercessor, and be willing
to do only that ministry she is specifically invited to do.

B. The opening prayer

Upon
arrival at the appointment, candidates often have some fears about possible
embarrassment or dangers that may be occur in a deliverance appointment. They may fear personal attack by demons
during the appointment, or attacks upon their family. However, the deliverance team will begin by praying
a covering prayer of protection for the candidate, the team and all their
families. In addition, we pray for God’s
anointing, for the giftings of the Holy Spirit (especially the gift of
discerning of spirits), for the delegated power and authority needed for
deliverance, and for the supernatural leading of the Holy Spirit throughout the
whole session. The deliverance team
seeks to be led by the Holy Spirit in all parts of the appointment.

C. The Interview

The
interview is the first of the three action phases of the deliverance
appointment. During the interview, the
deliverance team seeks to discover the identity of all the demons that are
present in the candidate. We expect
God’s supernatural gift of discerning of spirits (I Corinthians 12:10) to enable the team to discern
the identity of nearly every demon. A
list is made of the names of the demons. They are “checked off” after they are
cast out. Others may be discerned during
the “casting out” phase of the appointment.

We
ask the candidate to describe his life from the time he was in his mother’s
womb to the present, primarily focusing on events and conditions that may have
caused trauma, fear, or any other kind of wounding to the candidate’s
emotions. This may take two hours or
more. We very much want to know what the
emotional climate was like in the home when he was born, and in the first
couple of years of his life. During the
interview, we will ask questions for clarification, and also inquire into areas
that the candidate might not have thought important enough to include. We want to discover where the candidate may
have been victimized, causing an opening for the entrance of demons, or where
he may have been involved in activities that violate God’s will, which may have
provided an opening. We will ask about
involvement in occult activities. We
also explain that it is likely that a number of curses may rest upon that
individual, which have come down to him as the result of the sins of his
ancestors. These will need to be broken
during the “legal work” phase. For more
information on the subject of curses, read Blessings and Curses
by Derek Prince.

D. Legal Work

Legal
work is the second phase of the deliverance appointment. Satan and his demons are legalists. They doggedly hold on to any ground for
staying in the candidate that may have been given to them through curses,
ungodly activities, ungodly vows, unforgiveness, or bitter root judgments made
during his earlier life. Accepting lies
or erroneous beliefs about who we are in God’s Kingdom can also be a legal
“hook”. Demons know that these legal
grounds give them the power to resist expulsion during the deliverance
appointment. Therefore, we want to be
careful to cover all the legal points.

We
begin by leading the candidate in declarations concerning who he is in Christ,
such as, “Father, I am Your child, and not a child of Satan. I have been redeemed by the precious blood of
Your Son, Jesus, my Savior and Lord.”
Declarations like these put the demons on notice that they are dealing
with disciples of Jesus who know who they are in Christ, know their authority
in Christ to deal with demons, and that they (the demons) will not have an easy
time of it when the actual deliverance begins.
When the candidate is entirely surrendered to Jesus as Lord, has
revealed all that we need to know, has repented of all known sins, and forgiven
everyone, the demons must come out when commanded to do so.

Unforgiveness
is a major legal ground for demons. If
they know that we are holding unforgiveness against anyone, they have a right
to hold on, and they will do just that, like a bulldog. As a part of the declarations that the
candidate is led to make, he is asked to pray that God will reveal the identity
of anyone against whom the candidate is holding unforgiveness. The candidate is then asked to declare, out
loud, that he forgives these people, one by one, using each person’s first
name. Further, the candidate is prompted
to ask God to reveal any sins in the candidate’s life that need to be confessed
to God, repented of, with seeking of forgiveness. This part can be done silently.

Because
of the vast amount of sin in all of our long family heritages, there are curses
on our family lines that have permitted the entrance of demons, and the
resulting torment that they create in the life of candidates. The candidate is led in “legal” statements
that break and nullify these curses, and destroy that part of the legal ground
that the demon has used to remain in the candidate.

In
addition, “legal” statements are made to renounce and nullify any ungodly inner
vows that were made earlier in the candidate’s life, that have left him in
spiritual bondage. An example would be,
“I will never allow my feelings to get hurt like this again”. This declares into the heavenlies that this
person has decided to become the lord and protector of his emotions. This action establishes the emotional
mechanism that causes the person to function as though he is the god of his
emotions, and he lives primarily through his mind, with feelings shut down, and
this allows the entrance of the spirit of “fear of emotions”. He does not like to feel emotions. Many people have this evil spirit living
inside, and they explain their condition with, “I’m just not an emotional
person”. God’s will is that each of His
children put their emotions into the care of the Holy Spirit. He knows what is best for us. The spirit of the fear of emotions has the
right to remain in the person as long as the inner vow is in effect.

Bitter
root judgments also need to be confessed and removed. When a person judges someone with bitterness,
such as, “I will never be an evil person like my mother”, this is a bitter root
judgment. It is a tragic step to
take. Judging is a right that only God
has. He is the One who will judge (Acts 17:30,31). For usurping God’s place as judge, this
person will often reap a consequence that is frequently described by the
person’s own lips, “I can’t believe that I have BECOME my mother.” Multiple spiritual and emotional mechanisms
are put in place with this bitter root judgment. This candidate needs to be led in a
confession of this sin, repentance, renouncing the judgment, asking forgiveness
of God for this sin, receiving God’s forgiveness, and making a declaration to
God that he will never judge his mother again.
If he sees her in sin again, he will simply pray for her.

Other
legal steps may be needed in order to release the candidate from demonic legal
grounds that hold him in bondage. These
are revealed by the Holy Spirit during the session.

E. Casting out the demons

The
third, and final, phase of the active part of the deliverance appointment
involves casting the demons out, in the name of Jesus, by the power of the Holy
Spirit. The following information should
help to prepare you for the process:

1. What are demons?

It is important to recognize that
demons (evil or unclean spirits) are real spirit beings that have a mind, a
will, and sometimes exhibit what we might call emotions, but have no physical
body. They are not to be confused with
our sins, thoughts, or bad habits. Our
“western” worldview may make it difficult for some deliverance candidates to
accept fully the reality of demons as real spirit beings. Jesus gave His disciples full authority to
cast out demons (Matthew 10:1, 8; Mark 3:15;
Luke 9:1), and we have that same authority in His Name (Luke 10:17-19; Acts 5:16; John 14:12;
Matthew 28:19,20).

2. What you may feel during the process.

Candidates sometimes come to their
appointment with fear that they will experience some of the sensational things
that they have heard about or have seen in a movie. It is true that people who attempt
deliverance without training, or without properly exercising our Lord’s
delegated authority over the demons can experience some unfortunate things, such
as the seven sons of a Jewish priest named Sceva (Acts 19:13-16). However, since the Lord has given us
authority, in His Name, over demons we exercise this authority, and dramatic
manifestations of unclean spirits almost never occur in our deliverance
appointments.

With this authority, we forbid such
displays. As you have already seen in
the section entitled “Legal Work”, the demonic strongholds are broken by the
power of the Holy Spirit, using God’s truth.
This process serves to pave the way for a powerful work of deliverance
by removing hindrances to the deliverance.
In God’s established order, He has allowed demons access to a person as
a result of sin, generational curses, trauma, ungodly inner vows, and bitter
root judgments. He also allows a measure
of torment: physical, mental, and emotional, from these unclean spirits. This causes us to want deliverance from
them. Demons often “overplay their
hand”, thus allowing Christians to recognize their existence, and the need for
deliverance. You may already recognize
feelings that have strong influence in your life, and which are not really
appropriate for your life. You may have
heard voices.

3. Common tactics the enemy will use

Satan’s demons seek to discourage us
throughout their time of residence in us, but especially as a deliverance
appointment approaches. They will seek
to discourage the candidate from going to the appointment. One of the common tactics they offer is to
make you believe that the tormenting feelings they have been creating in you
are just “you”, and that you had better reconcile yourself to their existence
in your life, because they are just a part of your “God-given” personality
makeup. For example, a spirit of fear
wants you to remain in fear all of your life by causing you to believe that you
are just a “very cautious”, or “very careful” person, rather than someone who
simply needs deliverance from a spirit of fear.
Likewise, a spirit of control or a spirit of perfectionism may tell you
that you are a “Type A Personality” or “neat freak”, when actually it is an
abominable demon seeking to bring harm to your life.

Another device the enemy will use, as
your appointment time approaches, is to threaten you concerning what will
happen during the appointment. Common
lies and threats include: a) you will be humiliated, b) nothing will happen, c)
the deliverance team will think and talk badly about you, d) the deliverance
will be painful and/or violent, e) Christians can’t have demons, f) you will
vomit, g) the demons will just come back after they are cast out (they might
even quote Matthew 12:43-45). This will
not happen to a willing Christian candidate, because after the deliverance, the
Holy Spirit will be called upon to fill you up, so that there are no empty places
left, h) you will lose your identity, personality or the protection that the
demon has promised you, i) your family or property will be harmed, j) the
deliverance team does not know what they are doing. All of these are tactics of the
adversary. We trust in the Lord’s Word,
“all who call upon the Name of the Lord shall be delivered” (Joel 2:32 NASB).

Lastly, demons do have access
to our thoughts and emotions and seek to manipulate both whenever
possible. It is vital to realize this as
you prepare for deliverance, and to align your thoughts and feelings as much as
possible with the Word of God (Philippians 4:8,9). It helps to read the Bible, or other
Christian books, and to listen to worship music. It is common for a candidate to feel nervous
or a bit nauseated on the day, or right before the day, of the deliverance
appointment. The demons know what is
about to happen, and are agitated because they will soon be facing
warfare. Here is where you just trust
the Lord to give you grace for this temporary warfare. It will soon be over.

4. The eviction of the demons

In Ephesians 2:2, Satan is called “the
prince of the power of the air”. In the
Greek, spirit is “pneuma” (pronounced “nooma”), and air is “pneuma”. A demon might be thought of as an “air
creature”, except that it has no molecules, like air does. Air is the medium by which demons normally
leave a person, during deliverance.
Typically, they come out of a person’s mouth with the expulsion of air,
in some form. Usually, coughing is seen,
but sometimes the demon will come out through yawning, burping, screaming,
moaning, or even the emission of air bubbles.
Since the most common way they come out is through coughing, the
deliverance team may encourage the candidate to give a couple of hearty coughs,
at what seems like the right time in the process. This is done for two purposes: to show the
demons that you are determined that they come out, and to simply get the air
moving.

Typically, we cast out several demons
at once, after the candidate has renounced the demons and done a few other
spiritual warfare types of things. After
they are gone, we check them off the list we have assembled (as you leave, you
take the list and put in your bible for future reference). The team will lay hands on the candidate in
order to impart the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit into the
candidate. At the same time, they are
exercising the delegated authority given by the Lord, as they command the
demons to leave.

Typically, this part of the appointment
will take an hour or more, as we evict the demons. Sometimes, an individual demon will put up a
struggle, but we will ultimately get it out.
This is where we wish we had Jesus, Himself, right there in the
appointment, to exercise His pure and ultimately powerful and majestic
authority. We are but His vessels,
exercising delegated authority, which surely does prove to be enough when we
exercise it diligently.

III. Deliverance is not a cure-all

Humans are plagued with many
problems. If we lived in an Eden-like
environment, where people were still without sin, our lives could be perfectly
happy. However, Scripture tells us, in I
John 5:19, that “the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.” The devil has been at work for a long time
creating his own works that “steal, kill and destroy” our lives (John 10:10). He and his demons hate us and desire our
destruction.

The good news is
that I John 3:8 tells us that “the Son of God appeared for this purpose, that
He might destroy the works of the devil.”
Jesus said, in John 14:12, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes
in Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall
he do; because I go to the Father.” So,
God’s people, empowered by God’s Holy Spirit, are commissioned to tear down
these works of the devil through the ministry of deliverance, and other
ministries that help people.

We live in a fallen
environment with sinful people who frequently hurt us. We also have a sin nature, and we hurt
others. Our lack of wholeness is a real
issue that we need to tend to, with the help of our Lord and His servants.

When demons are cast out, the wounds
remain. They do not heal in the same way
that our physical bodies heal. They stay
open and painful until Jesus heals them, through the ministry of inner
healing. If we neglect this important
phase of our search for wholeness, we will be unable to rise to our full
potential as God’s servants. One example
is that wounds which created the fear of vulnerability will keep us from loving
others the way He wants us to, since real love requires vulnerability.

When a person struggles with extreme
selfishness, he may have a demon of selfishness. Until that demon is cast out, he has no real
hope of making significant progress in his effort to come out of
selfishness. Once the demon is gone, he
can make progress, since he is then fighting only against his flesh. We must not buy into the teaching that all of
our problems are simply an “attack of the devil”. We are “fleshly” people, and even if all the
demons are cast out, and all our wounds are healed, we still have our flesh to
contend with. Deliverance from demons
does not create sanctification. It sets
us free from the torment and manipulation of the demons so that we can work
cooperatively with the Holy Spirit toward our sanctification, and spiritual
maturity.

Sanctification comes about when we
surrender to the Holy Spirit, give Him complete control, and let Him fully
develop the fruit of the Holy Spirit in us, and clean up our fleshly behavior,
including the sin patterns and habits of our past. Part of this process is the removal of many
erroneous beliefs that have come from the world and the enemy, and have been
installed on the “hard drive” in our minds, as though they are truth. One example of this is: “look out for ol’
number one”. All of us have accepted
these erroneous beliefs into our system during our growing up years in school,
in the workplace, and even in our home of origin. These beliefs are not God’s truth, and He
says to us, “do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your minds” (Rom 12:2).
These beliefs work against our efforts to live the way God wants us to
live, and can even hurt us and our relationships with those we love. We should be eager to have the Holy Spirit
show us these erroneous beliefs, so we can eject them out of our system and
replace them with God’s truth.

IV. After the deliverance appointment

After the deliverance
appointment, you have gained freedom from the demons that harassed you. The demons are on the outside of you. They

no longer live on
the inside of you, where they had such power to torment you. They are not happy that they have been
evicted, and some of them may try to convince you to let them back in. They want to steal your new freedom from you
and put you back into bondage. You do
not have to let them back in. You have
the Holy Spirit living inside you, Who gives you the power to resist them,
absolutely (I Jn 4:4; James 4:7).

A few of those which have
been cast out may come “tapping on your window”, causing you to feel a portion of that old uncomfortable
feeling that used to lead you to act in ungodly ways. When you feel that feeling, STOP right there,
and consider what is going on. Try to
discern what the feeling is, and which demon is causing you to feel that
way. You will probably be able to do
this readily. If there is some struggle
figuring it out, pull your list of demons out of your Bible (you should carry
it there for a year after your deliverance appointment), and locate the demon
on the list. Then, speak directly to the
demon, out loud:

“You spirit of fear, I see
you and what you’re doing, and I rebuke you in Jesus’ name. I WILL NOT LET YOU BACK IN. You are finished here. My Lord and Savior and Deliverer, Jesus
Christ, has cast you out, and you are staying out. I stand with Jesus, and I resist you. Now leave me alone. I command you to get away from me, in Jesus
Name.”

The spirit will leave. It may make a few more attempts over a period
of time, but your persistent rebuking, and your strong stand against it, will
show it that you are no longer a willing habitation for it. It will get the message and will eventually
leave you alone.

Remember, you still have the
flesh to deal with. In the case of fear,
you will have to make some changes in your belief system. You will have to decide that God IS capable
of taking care of you. He offers to take
care of your cares, because He cares for you (I Peter 5:7) Scripture is very important, e.g. “perfect
love casts out fear” (I Jn 4:18). Are you letting God’s perfect love fill you,
instead of fear? Speak into fearful
situations, “God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a
sound mind” (II Timothy 1:7).

A very good thing to do after
the appointment is to take your demon list to the Lord in a serious quiet
time. Go through the list of demons, one
by one, and thank Him for casting these out of you. Ask Him what life will be like without this
demon, and that one. Very importantly,
ask Him what steps you should take to strengthen yourself to keep each demon
away from you. Seek the help of brothers
and/or sisters in being discipled, and growing strong in the Lord.

Lastly, I want you to feel
free to come back to me with any questions you may have regarding your walk in
the new freedom you have found.